topic Re: Short Term Solution for Flash Issue in SAS Customer Intelligence

Short Term Solution for Flash Issue

dsadsad — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:52:47 GMT

Hi All,

Has anyone working on a short term solution to get away with Flash while we work on upgrade in parallel . one of the activity we are looking by installing a browser in Citrix environment with Flash plugin and no further patches/updates to the browser. Its kind of freezing/locking the browser. we are still testing out this approach.

Looking forward to hear if there are any other solutions considered and working from your side . i am sure most of us are in same situation.

Thanks in Advance.

Re: Short Term Solution for Flash Issue

Dmitry_Alergant — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 03:02:19 GMT

It's too late to freeze the current version of the browser. Browsers had a "kill-switch" baked in for some while, since last ~1.5 years. An older version (perhaps Mozilla Firefox may be easier to find and install) may still work.

Or manipulating with the dates on the machine.

That said, Adobe Flash does provide a way to "domain whitelist" Flash content after December 31 for intranet environments: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/enterprise-end-of-life.html. See "Enterprise enablement support" chapter. It wasn't planned originally but I think they included this capability sometime this July or so. Perhaps this should be your way to go.

Keep in mind when Adobe says "unsupported" it means they don't provide support, it doesn't mean it won't work for some time. It will - that's why this option exists. It will probably still stop working after a while, perhaps with the Operation System evolution (when the new OS version becomes incompatible with the legacy version of the flash player - and updates are not being created, except by that Harman partner they referred to).

Re: Short Term Solution for Flash Issue

dsadsad — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:37:06 GMT

Thanks Dmitry.

Domain white list is a good option .we are testing out the same .